MY MOTHER THE CAR
Title song from the TV Series (1965)
(Paul Hampton)


Paul Hampton (TV Soundtrack) - 1965



Everybody knows in the second life
We all come back sooner or later
As anything from a pussy cat
To a maneating alligator

Well you all may think my story
Is more fiction than it's fact
But believe it or not, my Mother dear
Decided she'd come back

As a car
She's my very own guiding star
A nineteen-twenty-eight Porter
That's my Mother dear
She helps me through everything I do
And I'm so glad she's here

My Mother the car
My Mother the car






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2011)

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MY MOTHER THE CAR
Paul Hampton

Sammy Davis, Jr. 


Everybody knows in a second life 
We all come back sooner or later
As anything from a pussycat to a man-eating alligator.
Well, you may think my story 
Is more fiction than it's fact,
But believe it or not, my Mother dear 
Decided she'd come back ... as a car!
She's my very own guiding star,
A 1928 Porter, that's my Mother dear;
She helps me through everything I do,
And I'm so glad she's here.

Everything my Daddy never was,
Well, now she wants me to be.
She's taken her place as the fifth member
Of my small family.
And she'll blow her radiator 
When things ain't going right,
And whenever she gets too lonely,
We just all got to spend the night ... with my car.
She's my very own guiding star.
I mean a 1928 Porter ...
That's my Mother dear.
She helps me through everything I do,
And I'm so glad she's here.
My Mother the car!
My Mother the car!




(Transcribed by Lou Rugani - The Music of the Stars (WLIP) - June 2011)